Volume 36 http://acousticalsociety.org/ 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America Louisville, Kentucky 13-17 May 2019 Physical Acoustics: Paper 4pPAb9 Aprototypesoundproofboxforisolatingground-air seismo-acousticsignals PhysicsandAstronomy,BrighamYoungUniversity,Provo,Utah,84602;
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[email protected] Published by the Acoustical Society of America © 2019 Acoustical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001034 Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 36, 045002 (2019) Page 1 E. J. Lysenko et al. A prototype soundproof box for isolating ground-air seismo-acoustic signals 1. INTRODUCTION Volcanic eruptions pose a serious threat to operating aircraft, since ejecta from volcanoes have a lower melting point than the operating temperature of aircraft engines (Matoza et al. 2018a). For example, during the 2010 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, the ash cloud climbed almost 9 km into the atmosphere causing most of the European airspace to close for six days. The proximity of this relatively small volcanic eruption to numerous major airports caused the largest disruption of air travel since World War II. Currently, satellites are used for visual confirmation of volcanic eruptions and estimation of how much ejecta and vapor is released into the atmosphere. Recent research has focused on using infrasound from volcanoes for early volcanic eruption detection. The ability to interpret volcano infrasound has the potential to not only reduce the time to confirm an eruption but also indicate the type and amount of ejecta (Matoza et al. 2018a). Infrasound can travel thousands of kilometers due to low atmospheric absorption and atmospheric refraction effects.